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  1. Rafi

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    Sylvia opened the front door as her mother stood in shock, and walked outside.
     
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    as her mother stood in shook (is/needs to be) set off as parenthetical information.

    If you wanted to be anal you could write it like this: Sylvia opened the front door as her mother stood in shock watching her little girl walk outside.

    or something like that to make the syntax clearer to the reader.
     
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    No. Should read: "As her mother stood in shock, Sylvia opened the front door and walked outside." or "Sylvia opened the front door and walked outside as her mother stood in shock."
     
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    Sylvia opened the front door, as her mother stood in shock, and walked outside.
     
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    Dandorotik is on point.
    Don't use too many comma's.
     
  6. david_rocket

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    I like dandorotik answer, that sounds good.
     
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    It should be

    Syliva walked outside, as her mother, and open the door, stood in shock.
     
  8. MamboRock

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    As her mother stood in shock which was a deep shock, Sylvia opened the door which was the front door and walked outside which was the opposite of inside.
     
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    OP is grammatically correct, but there are other grammatically correct choices as well.
     
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    Why was Sylvia's mother in shock?
     
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    Pics of Sylvia (and the mother) or it didn't happen.
     
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    Go on... keep going...

    Get to the secksy part.
     
  13. dandorotik

    dandorotik Contributing Member

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    OP is not grammatically correct. There either has to be a comma after "door" or the comma after "shock" has to be removed. Actually, depends on what you're talking about - is Sylvia walking outside or the mother? It's really best to just rearrange the sentence.

    Sylvia opened the front door as her mother stood in shock and walked outside.
     
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    dandorotik Contributing Member

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    "Don't use too many commas." Apostrophe is not necessary.
     
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    It should read "I like dandorotik's answer; that sounds good."
     
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    Should read "Get to the sexy part."
     
  17. dandorotik

    dandorotik Contributing Member

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    Dont you just want to cyber-smack grammar Nazis like me?
     
  18. dandorotik

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    Should read: "Don't you...."
     
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    Shouldn't it be "Don't you ..."?
     
  20. SwoLy-D

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    If you want to use an ellipsis for suspense or continuation, do THREE (3) dots, not FOUR (4). :eek:

    This would not really work as a correction to his sentence because you wouldn't know who walked outside; you wouldn't know who was inside the house, either.
    It would be best to also have a subject there, as in "It should read...", so that you may have a complete sentence.

    It's cool and, although it sounds weird to have that dependent clause in the middle, it could be written as dandorotik suggests.

    You're missing an apostrophe. "Don't" is a contraction of "Do not" and should have an apostrophe. :eek:
     
    #20 SwoLy-D, Oct 16, 2012
    Last edited: Oct 16, 2012

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